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Messages - mike123
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« on: January 03, 2025, 07:02 »
As a customer I really don't care if the image has been created by AI or if it's a real photo - as long as it looks good and illustrates the object or the concept well. Except for some topics, where I'd prefer authentic content, such as editorial, wildlife, travel destinations. Which is where Adobe with their clear separation between AI and non-AI collections fares better than SS with AI images being offered as real content.
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« on: January 03, 2025, 05:23 »
While Shutterstock cuts royalties every January, at Adobe we do get to enjoy some higher royalties in the beginning of January  . From what I understand this is due to decreased amount of subscription downloads - thus a larger amount is paid out to contributors per download. I got two $1.21 sales today and two $1.17 yesterday, instead of the usual $0.91 or so sales during the year. Looking at my history, the royalties started to rise already around Christmas, hitting the highest amount today.
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« on: December 30, 2024, 12:15 »
1. Earn more money with photography That's it
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« on: December 27, 2024, 06:39 »
I agree with Mike, Steve is doing a great job, but this does not apply to us Europeans. It is much more difficult for us to make these numbers.
FAA and Pictorem have customers mostly from North America and want content related to their places. Just look at what FAA sells on the "sales announcements" page.
Second that. The European art print market is much smaller than the US one and much harder to be successful in. But I still was surprised with some big expensive print sales to European customers, so the market still has some potential 
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« on: December 26, 2024, 18:29 »
Mike,
What are you doing on social media?
How is your selling prints going and do you use the POD sites (ie: FAA etc)?
Just received an email from Steve Heap (Backyard Silver) and he shares some impressive updates on his sales on POD sites showing significant growth each year. Link to the article on his website below.
https://backyardsilver.com/update-on-my-fine-art-approach/
Very interesting article, thanks for the link! I do also sell through POD sites, but sites like FAA and Pictorem barely sell anything for me, likely because I've got very few images of interest to US buyers (I am located in Germany). I mostly sell through my own website, that I spent a lot of time setting up and getting SEO and speed optimized. Lately the website gets more and more traction and I'm pretty satisfied with the results right now. Customers arrive through Google search mostly. I barely do any advertising on social media. In the past I tried to advertise my prints to my followers - with (I think) zero results. So I stopped doing that . I'm planning to also branch out to Etsy in 2025 as I think/hope I can reach additional customers there. Social media can be pretty nicely monetized if you live in the right place (e.g. in US). I used to have Facebook monetization for a few months and it was pretty good - to give you an example, one image went viral and made me around $200. Also having large following and reach generally gives you more opportunities to be noticed by an art buyer or a company looking to license your content. But it takes a lot of time and effort to build a large following.
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« on: December 26, 2024, 10:27 »
There's an old marketing rule that says, when faced with an oversaturated market, there are two options. You either go up or you go down. (Sell Rolex's or sell copy watches). But don't stay in the middle. Its the middle ground that will be eroded.
Very well said! For my part, I'm trying to go up. Actually already since 2020, when SS cut royalties and I left them. Which in my case means doing social media, selling prints, licensing content directly to customers and so on. It took some time to get going, but this year I was able to outperform my previous best year (2016) by over 30%, while my earnings from microstock fell to around 50% of 2016's level.
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« on: December 19, 2024, 05:10 »
yes but you started in the year 1859!
Yes, I started before you were born. I think.. maybe you are that old And what's your point?
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« on: December 17, 2024, 03:29 »
All together of my 3 adobe accounts i got $18 one day
That would be a slow day for my account of less than 1k assets
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« on: December 11, 2024, 14:10 »
Glad I never got around to upload anything there. And now I never will
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« on: December 11, 2024, 03:09 »
No. Mainly because creating AI content doesn't bring me joy. And if something doesn't bring me joy, I would only do it for the money. And if I'm doing something only for the money, I could invest the same amount of time into a 9-5 job and earn much more with it. Also I don't think investing time into AI is a good long-term investment. The content will probably sell for 1-2 years and then be gone. With my real content I'm still earning on over 10 year old pieces.
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« on: December 05, 2024, 07:09 »
Pos 3680 here. Only about 20% sales from Christmas related content right now (I don't have much Christmas content).
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« on: December 04, 2024, 10:52 »
@mike
Maybe the beast will surprise you in 2025. Could be an interesting year for stock. Good luck!
Thank you @cobalt! I'm not so pessimistic about next year, because I seem to still get a lot of real photo sales despite the flood of AI content on Adobe. So let's see . But I can't justify uploading high quality content to microstock anymore because I now demand much higher prices from clients for this type of content. So microstock ship has sailed for me . I really like your analytical approach and wish you luck with your goals in 2025! 
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« on: December 04, 2024, 04:37 »
My goals for 2025 (sadly) don't include anything for microstock. But will be uploading some lower quality content from time to time to "feed the beast" and hopefully keep earning on similar level as in 2024.
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« on: November 27, 2024, 06:26 »
Made it into the inner 1k. Happy day
Wow congrats!
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« on: November 19, 2024, 12:03 »
some of the posters have rec'd PM from buyers. my sales have remained the same, altho some of the sales are from images i've promoted but beware the post hoc ergo proper hoc fallacy
Indeed I also sold a few prints after being contacted by buyers via DMs on social media, but without any prior promotion.
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« on: November 18, 2024, 11:49 »
Speaking from my own experience, I've never had any print sales through promoting my prints on social media (I mean organic, not paid ads). I've stopped doing any promotion on social media some time ago because it was a waste of time. Usually social media followers are other photographers or just people interested in pretty pictures - they are rarely (or never) interested in buying anything from you. But having said that, there are apparently people, who successfully sell prints through social media promotion. So maybe you could become one of those .
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« on: November 16, 2024, 10:27 »
Maybe next week? Congrats!
Thank you! Not counting on it, but who knows . It's already a miracle I'm able to keep last year's sale amount with almost no new uploads. Probably former SS customers switching to Adobe.. Good luck to you too next week!
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« on: November 16, 2024, 03:36 »
Scratching at the 3000 mark
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« on: October 31, 2024, 14:11 »
Excellent! Congrats!
Thank you!
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« on: October 31, 2024, 13:11 »
My portfolio seems to be doing ok
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« on: October 29, 2024, 07:28 »
New laptop to edit my work. Mine is already 5 years old and getting really slow . Though it's on the top of my wish list, I know I'm not gonna be buying one this year due to tax reasons.
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« on: October 18, 2024, 17:11 »
For clarity though - "inflation" does not "hit people" - it is the coordinated massive money printing by the various govt's that devalues people's savings (i.e., a type of theft of assets). So basically the people who own/run the govts are stealing people's money, simply by printing more money. It's like you have $100 - and then the person next you decides to print $1 million out of thin air, and then competes with you to purchase the same asset.
Global inflation is being driven by the US Democrats, led by the bas.tard Biden.
During the election debates, US presidential candidate Donald Trump said that under Joe Biden the cost of food products has doubled, tripled, quadrupled.
That is because people are eating dogs and cats. They are also eating the pets of the people who live there. Trump said that, so it's true 
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« on: October 12, 2024, 02:20 »
Theres got to be a market for a tool that will run reverse searches on your stock stuff to see if its for sale on the same or another stocksite by a different author (or multiple times).
Does such a tool exist? Copytrack doesnt seem to.
These was a tool which did exactly that. It was called Plughunter. It was discontinued 1-2 years ago - probably wasn't generating any profit.
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« on: October 11, 2024, 08:09 »
I've got a bit more downloads than usual this week. I don't sell AI, only photos. So, maybe only AI images were affected this week
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« on: October 08, 2024, 11:23 »
Pos 3450 - probably my best rank ever .
(Screenshot from Monday morning - thus so few downloads)
Broke my own record from yesterday - position 3330 today . Nice amount of downloads, but the earnings are pathetic.
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